InsAph

Inscriptions of Aphrodisias Project

Corpora and Language

Notis Toufexis and David Holden, Building a database for the compilation of the Grammar of Medieval Greek

The Grammar of Medieval Greek project at the University of Cambridge is developing a database system based on a relational model in which both the management
of bibliographical entries of all kinds and the actual language description (the collection of excerpts from identified
sources and their linguistic labelling) are integrated. This database is primarily being used for the compilation of a
comprehensive Grammar of Medieval Greek in book form. The actual database system will be presented together with a brief
discussion of methodological issues concerning Medieval Greek textual data and their implications for database design.
The presentation will close with a short (exploratory) statement about the theoretical problems of converting the future
Grammar of Medieval Greek into machine readable format.